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RED Engineering Design is an international M&E consultancy focusing on low energy design and zero carbon-built environments.

• Provide professional and efficient executive assistant service to the Chief Financial Officer.
• Review all incoming correspondence (primarily emails) and take action on urgent requests and deadlines.
• Follow up on required business items to progress actions and ensure outcomes are achieved.
• Manage and control the CFO’s diary, optimising it, resolving scheduling issues and ensuring sufficient time for priority tasks.
• Coordinate the preparation of agendas, reports, presentations and minutes as required.
• Arrange travel and accommodation for business trips.
• Act as the conduit for communication between the CFO’s department and wider internal teams and external client base.
• Organise off‑site company meetings, sourcing venues and monitoring contracts and budgets.
• Process expense claims, ensuring they adhere to company policy.
• Organise and schedule all RMC/CRM meetings in line with governance and liaise with Tractebel Risk Officer for Go/No Go and CRC meetings.
• Ensure documentation is made available to RMC members ahead of meetings and reschedule if documents are not ready.
• Take notes in RMC meetings, circulate minutes timely and update PM workbook.
• Maintain RED RMC deck and tracker up to date.
• Co‑sec support to General Counsel.
• Manage RED insurance programme renewals in collaboration with ENGIE Insurance, General Counsel and CFO.
• Maintain RED DOA, ensuring changes are approved by Excom when required.
• Maintain banking and statutory information for all legal entities.
• Review RED Commercial Policy annually and keep it up‑to‑date.
• Maintain Finance organogram and SharePoint; deliver finance induction programme.
• Provide one‑off project management support and extensive documentation.

• Degree qualified.
• Proven Executive Assistant experience at Senior Board level within a consultancy or financial services company.
• 6+ years’ experience at EA level.
• Excellent administrative and organisational support; able to plan and prioritise.
• Work on own initiative with a highly flexible attitude, maintaining confidentiality.
• Work productively under pressure, maintaining a calm and professional approach.
• Good time management and flexibility to meet business needs.
• Strong attention to detail.
• High level of initiative and self‑motivation.
• Great sense of urgency.
• Deep understanding of ethics and compliance requirements.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels with diplomacy and discretion.
• Manage high‑volume workload and deliver to a consistently high standard under pressure.
• Adopt a confident, flexible attitude to competing demands.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint).
• Team player, able to build relationships across individuals.
• Background in consulting or construction preferred.
• Good understanding of international working and business operations of a global consultancy.
• Suitability requires right to live and work in the UK without restrictions; we are unable to offer sponsorship at present.

Mid‑Senior level

Contract

Administrative

Construction industry experience preferred.